Peter Kicsiny, PhD student at the EPFL Laboratory of Particle Accelerators, has received the FCC Innovation Award at the FCC week 2024 conference, which took place in San Francisco in June. The prize was awarded on the merit of the development of numerical beam-beam collision models in the Xsuite simulation framework.

The work of Peter, was fully funded by the CHART initiative, contributes to advancing the modelling of the FCC-ee. This collider is a challenging project due to the highly nonlinear nature of the beam dynamics resulting from the effects of beam-beam collisions, radiation and their interplay with other elements over the ~91Km lenght. This highly complex system requires self-consistent simulation of the relevant physical effects with a fast and flexible numerical model. The research of Peter enabled this by the implementation of the modeling of the electromagnetic interaction of colliding electron and positron beams in various approximations, together with the implementation of the relevant quantum radiation processes which can take place during these collisions. The tool he developed also features GPU acceleration which helps to speed up simulations by several orders of magnitude, compared to single CPU execution.